If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Unity is not agreeing with each other about God. Rather it is agreeing with God about each other.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,'

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

In England, nobody's your friend.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.